CVE-2018-19166
peercoin through 0.6.4 (a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency) allows a remote denial of service, exploitable by an attacker who acquires even a small amount of stake/coins in the system. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks, which are stored on the victim's disk.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2019-11-05
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
References
- http://fc19.ifca.ai/preproceedings/180-preproceedings.pdf
- https://medium.com/%40dsl_uiuc/fake-stake-attacks-on-chain-based-proof-of-stake-cryptocurrencies-b8b05723f806
